The Best Is Yet to Come (Ella Fitzgerald album)
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| The Best Is Yet to Come | ||||
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| Released | 1982 | |||
| Recorded | February 4, 5, 1982 | |||
| Genre | Jazz | |||
| Length | 40:11 | |||
| Label | Pablo Today | |||
| Producer | Norman Granz | |||
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The Best Is Yet to Come is a 1982 studio album by the American jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald, accompanied by a studio orchestra arranged and conducted by Nelson Riddle.[1]
The last of Fitzgerald's seven collaborations with Riddle, their work together on the Verve label more than fifteen years earlier is considered some of Fitzgerald's finest, both musically and critically.
Fitzgerald's performance on the album won her the 1984 Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Female, one of three Grammys she won for her work with Riddle.
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [1] |
| The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings |  [2] |
| The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide | [3] |
In his biography of Riddle, September In the Rain, Peter J. Levinson wrote that the album "...simply wasn't the best. In fact it was a near disaster. The raggedy tone of Ella's voice couldn't be disguised".[4]
